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Long corks or the bottle companions   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Long corks or the bottle companions
Description
English: Two extravagantly dressed women face each other, each seated on, or rather supported by, an enormous cork which projects from the neck of a bottle. Both are elderly, one (left) enormously fat, the other very thin. Both wear the grotesque pyramids of hair, flanked by ringlets like large sausages and surmounted by ostrich-feathers, so much caricatured since 1776, see BMSat 5370, &c. Their skirts are skimpy in front, showing the contour of their legs, but project in great panniers at the back. Both are gloved and hold fans. The cork and bottle of the fat woman is correspondingly broader than that of her thin vis-à-vis. 11 April 1777
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Date 1777
date QS:P571,+1777-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 349 millimetres
Width: 246 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1865,0610.1119
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)

This is a satire on the fashions of the day, especially the 'cork-rumps' which appear to have temporarily replaced hoops as a support to skirts and draperies, see BMSat 5381, &c.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1865-0610-1119
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